diff --git a/llama/llama.go b/llama/llama.go
index 1d4513e31..a20f23578 100644
--- a/llama/llama.go
+++ b/llama/llama.go
@@ -199,21 +199,25 @@ func (c *Context) KvCacheDefrag() {
 
 // Get the embeddings for a sequence id
 func (c *Context) GetEmbeddingsSeq(seqId int) []float32 {
-	embeddings := unsafe.Pointer(C.llama_get_embeddings_seq(c.c, C.int(seqId)))
-	if embeddings == nil {
+	e := unsafe.Pointer(C.llama_get_embeddings_seq(c.c, C.int(seqId)))
+	if e == nil {
 		return nil
 	}
 
-	return unsafe.Slice((*float32)(embeddings), c.Model().NEmbd())
+	embeddings := make([]float32, c.Model().NEmbd())
+	_ = copy(embeddings, unsafe.Slice((*float32)(e), c.Model().NEmbd()))
+	return embeddings
 }
 
 func (c *Context) GetEmbeddingsIth(i int) []float32 {
-	embeddings := unsafe.Pointer(C.llama_get_embeddings_ith(c.c, C.int32_t(i)))
-	if embeddings == nil {
+	e := unsafe.Pointer(C.llama_get_embeddings_ith(c.c, C.int32_t(i)))
+	if e == nil {
 		return nil
 	}
 
-	return unsafe.Slice((*float32)(embeddings), c.Model().NEmbd())
+	embeddings := make([]float32, c.Model().NEmbd())
+	_ = copy(embeddings, unsafe.Slice((*float32)(e), c.Model().NEmbd()))
+	return embeddings
 }
 
 type ModelParams struct {